Gene Sharp Quotes

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

Gene Sharp

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Them

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Language
  • Thought
  • Dress

• The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Plants

• There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Reading
  • Curiosity

• I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Time
  • Action
  • Taken

• A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today's globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • World
  • Today

• Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • Opportunity
  • Sleep

• Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

  

  Gene Sharp
  • People
  • Strong
  • Weak